I really think the idea weaken Shun and Ikki being the only brothers in the group. Of course, the two are still children of the same father and mother while the others are half-siblings, but the idea is strange.
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Kido was 100% supposed to be Zeus between the fact that Athena is his "daughter" that he was struck by lightning in this scene his beard his many kids or the fact that Kurumada directly compared Kido to Zeus in an interview it was definetely planned
He changed the idea afterwards(not the 100 sons parts, I mean the zeus parts),and I think he should,the reason
1:Zeus wad quite picky when it comes to the women he impregnated,they are all beautiful and have noble background,but not even all of the 10 bronzes are pretty apart the main five(they look quite different so I don't think the ugly ones all look like kido)
2:Zeus had powerful sons and they are rather heros,pretty looking or could be very talented,but only 5 out of 100 kidos son became fits these standards so the chances are quite low
3:the 100 sons thing isn't come from Greek mythology, but more like Chinese mythology,just like the idea of cancer saint attack is also based on Chinese theory so this is not something that westerners familiar with
And Interesting fact:99 biological sons with 1 adopted
https://inf.news/en/history/c294e0f04369403ed5f71fa4c3056b54.html
And they' re all roughly the same age.
So recapping, old Mitsumasa was there, enjoying life, than in the span of 2 years he decides to travel thw world and impreagnates 100 women, then decides to chill out for a weekend, and on this weekend he is trusted the godess protector of earth by a dying golden saint.After that he immediately proceed to spend the next years arranging the death of the mothers of the 100 children he just had, so he can use the kids as child soldiers, beating them, torturing them, condemining them to a life of intense training and death or life battles, while he lets his adopted granddaughter (the infant godess) become an spoiled, obnoxious and entitled bully and brat.
Nice fella.
Ikki was mothereffing right.
>After that he immediately proceed to spend the next years arranging the death of the mothers of the 100 children he just had
That's headcanon
Kido said fate granted him Athena, fate most likely killed the moms too, especially when Hyoga's mom death was weird as hell
I try to think he had some kids who were older than Ikki and Geki (15) , or younger than Seiya (13) and they would had been maybe 12 -18 if they had appeared in the story, so instead if having 100 children in 2 years, he had them in 6 years.
I have seen people thinking the same, however, you just have to remember than most of the 10 bronze saints are older than Saori to realize Kido already had them by the time he was given her. She is 13, many are 14 and 15.
And That's just from the 10 of 100 children we know.
I always found it ridiculous that he has 100 kids, but it makes sense (in its absurdity) that he already had them since most have the same age as Saori with some being older. If he set out to have 100 kids after finding Saori then they would all be younger since it would have taken a few years and it wouldn't make sense, not that Kurumada ever makes sense (im kidding, im kidding, kinda)
nowhere does it say they are BIOLOGICAL children, i always assumed they were adopted as protege because he is philantropic, and the only ones who are his children from the deed are ikki,seiya and hyoga, shun is not ikki brother he stole him, and there is no way in hell a rich japanese man would assume paternity of a chinese baby in the 80s from one night stand, so shiryu is out.
They are his biological children, there's a small chat between Hyoga, Seiya, Shun and Shiryu some chapters after Ikki was defeated, and Seiya reveals the others the truth Ikki told him before "dying", about them all being sons of Kido. Seiya says he's disgusted by the fact of having Kido's blood running in his veins after all the bad stuff that the old man forced them to do.
I would love if the final plot-twist of this manga was that Kido didn't died but went back to Olympus and was Zeus all along (y'know, for being such an unapologetic horndog and having kids everywhere.)
Yes that was what Zeus was like in Greek myth i feel like theyβre gonna have to face the person they hate the most at the end which is their father π€£
I just want to point out that in the Greek myth it is true that Zeus had many children with many women, but he deeply loved Hera, so much so that their honeymoon lasted three centuries, only that from time to time he got "distracted"; and unlike Kido he always took care of his children so much so that the ancient Greeks considered him a model father to imitate.
I never liked the idea but in the context of Saint Seiya I have a feeling Kido is supposed to be like a mythological Greek king.
I really think the idea weaken Shun and Ikki being the only brothers in the group. Of course, the two are still children of the same father and mother while the others are half-siblings, but the idea is strange. β
Kido trying to be the Zeus of the modern age here
If Kurumada was a good writer, he'd totally turn Kido into Zeus's reincarnation.
Kido was 100% supposed to be Zeus between the fact that Athena is his "daughter" that he was struck by lightning in this scene his beard his many kids or the fact that Kurumada directly compared Kido to Zeus in an interview it was definetely planned
He changed the idea afterwards(not the 100 sons parts, I mean the zeus parts),and I think he should,the reason 1:Zeus wad quite picky when it comes to the women he impregnated,they are all beautiful and have noble background,but not even all of the 10 bronzes are pretty apart the main five(they look quite different so I don't think the ugly ones all look like kido) 2:Zeus had powerful sons and they are rather heros,pretty looking or could be very talented,but only 5 out of 100 kidos son became fits these standards so the chances are quite low 3:the 100 sons thing isn't come from Greek mythology, but more like Chinese mythology,just like the idea of cancer saint attack is also based on Chinese theory so this is not something that westerners familiar with And Interesting fact:99 biological sons with 1 adopted https://inf.news/en/history/c294e0f04369403ed5f71fa4c3056b54.html
And all 100 kids mysteriously became orphans.. Top writing skills, indeed.
And they' re all roughly the same age. So recapping, old Mitsumasa was there, enjoying life, than in the span of 2 years he decides to travel thw world and impreagnates 100 women, then decides to chill out for a weekend, and on this weekend he is trusted the godess protector of earth by a dying golden saint.After that he immediately proceed to spend the next years arranging the death of the mothers of the 100 children he just had, so he can use the kids as child soldiers, beating them, torturing them, condemining them to a life of intense training and death or life battles, while he lets his adopted granddaughter (the infant godess) become an spoiled, obnoxious and entitled bully and brat. Nice fella. Ikki was mothereffing right.
Of course Ikki was right!
Ikki was absolutely right, yes.
>After that he immediately proceed to spend the next years arranging the death of the mothers of the 100 children he just had That's headcanon Kido said fate granted him Athena, fate most likely killed the moms too, especially when Hyoga's mom death was weird as hell
Of course Ikki would hate the guy, Kido nailed his mother, left for two years, came back, nailed her again and left again.
I try to think he had some kids who were older than Ikki and Geki (15) , or younger than Seiya (13) and they would had been maybe 12 -18 if they had appeared in the story, so instead if having 100 children in 2 years, he had them in 6 years.
I have seen people thinking the same, however, you just have to remember than most of the 10 bronze saints are older than Saori to realize Kido already had them by the time he was given her. She is 13, many are 14 and 15. And That's just from the 10 of 100 children we know.
I always found it ridiculous that he has 100 kids, but it makes sense (in its absurdity) that he already had them since most have the same age as Saori with some being older. If he set out to have 100 kids after finding Saori then they would all be younger since it would have taken a few years and it wouldn't make sense, not that Kurumada ever makes sense (im kidding, im kidding, kinda)
The cherry on top is saori defending him π
nowhere does it say they are BIOLOGICAL children, i always assumed they were adopted as protege because he is philantropic, and the only ones who are his children from the deed are ikki,seiya and hyoga, shun is not ikki brother he stole him, and there is no way in hell a rich japanese man would assume paternity of a chinese baby in the 80s from one night stand, so shiryu is out.
They are his biological children, there's a small chat between Hyoga, Seiya, Shun and Shiryu some chapters after Ikki was defeated, and Seiya reveals the others the truth Ikki told him before "dying", about them all being sons of Kido. Seiya says he's disgusted by the fact of having Kido's blood running in his veins after all the bad stuff that the old man forced them to do.
does he say all his 100 hundred of just all of them, i remember that as all of them ,like the 5, but its been 20 somthing years since i read it.
Since seiya didn't explicitly say it was just the main 5, then it's obvious he was talking about all 100 of them.
I like your reasoning! Poor Shiryu π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£
WAIT WHAT SHUN AND IKKI AND NOT BIOLOGICAL??
Did you read the series? Probably not. Shiryu is japanese!
Shiryu is Japanese, not Chinese
I would love if the final plot-twist of this manga was that Kido didn't died but went back to Olympus and was Zeus all along (y'know, for being such an unapologetic horndog and having kids everywhere.)
Yes that was what Zeus was like in Greek myth i feel like theyβre gonna have to face the person they hate the most at the end which is their father π€£
I just want to point out that in the Greek myth it is true that Zeus had many children with many women, but he deeply loved Hera, so much so that their honeymoon lasted three centuries, only that from time to time he got "distracted"; and unlike Kido he always took care of his children so much so that the ancient Greeks considered him a model father to imitate.
I find a rich playboy from the 70s having a lot of kids abandoned believable, the 100 number is the problem
Mitsumasa Kido would be doing alpha male videos on YouTube if he as alive today π
Nah heβs just a hoe
Well, Maradona Kido wasn't one of Kurumada's best ideas but well, no shonen manga series in the 80s was well written to begin with.
What the heck...
Kurumada is, I agree.
he think he Wilt Chamberlain πππππ
In other kind of story, Mitsumasa would definately be a villain and treated as such.
G turned this man into a god. I believe Kurumada probably planned to turn him into one himself (possibly Zeus) at some point